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Fuck video games, man.
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appaws
Banned
I love drunken threads.
Hear ya on all of it OP. No time to play, life getting in the way.
But sometimes you just stumble on to a couple that are so fun and amazing that they bring you back to the place where you were when you got into it.
Last few months for me its been Ultimate General Civil War and Ys VIII, just giving me so many happy gaming moments.
Hear ya on all of it OP. No time to play, life getting in the way.
But sometimes you just stumble on to a couple that are so fun and amazing that they bring you back to the place where you were when you got into it.
Last few months for me its been Ultimate General Civil War and Ys VIII, just giving me so many happy gaming moments.
Mysterious Stranger
Member
Sleep less play more games!
The saying about having time but no money, or having money but no time definitely rings true. Full time jobs suck away so much of your time, and if you go home for a good multihour session you basically don't have time for anything else.
Sucks. I started a new job at the start of the month and it's going well, but maaaan this whole October onslaught is about to happen and I had to cut out a bunch of games I was going to try before (like South Park and Shadow of War) and just stop with Evil Within/Danganronpa from last month alternating until Mario comes out.
Sucks. I started a new job at the start of the month and it's going well, but maaaan this whole October onslaught is about to happen and I had to cut out a bunch of games I was going to try before (like South Park and Shadow of War) and just stop with Evil Within/Danganronpa from last month alternating until Mario comes out.
Wag
Member
I'll hit 45 in December and I still love video games and I've been doing it since I played some Pong, Lunar Lander, and Space Invaders in an arcade. I don't play as many as I'd like, but I do manage to play a video game every day. I kept buying games as if I could play them all for the longest time, but I finally realized how much of a waste of money that was. For instance, this month out of all the big games, likely the only one I will pick up will be Super Mario Odyssey. I did pick up Stardew Valley and Cuphead and enjoying those. Back in the day, I would have bought pretty much all the big new titles and only played a bit of most of them, finally gravitating to one and so I am cutting that process off at the head and getting to the one I really want.
This actually means you can look forward to having more time for games after you graduate, since you'll still have an 8hr/day job, but there will be no school to attend or study for.
Wag
Member
PC gaming is amazing and I bought a PS4 Pro just for Horizon, which was also amazing.
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
42, full time job, girlfriend, and i game regularly on my Switch and PS4 Pro. 32 platinum trophies lol. Not as much as i was younger obviously lol, but you can make it work and still have time for everything. Are there times i get too busy and can't play for a few days in a row? Sure. Does it piss me off? You better believe it lol, but it can work, and not be a stressful experience. Gamer4Lyfe lol
I love how this post was going well and then you went all xviper in the last sentence.
Jack The Nipper
Banned
There really to me damn it
Excuse us mr. girth.
JetBlackPanda
Member
Make time for them? If its important to you, set aside 2-3 hours once a week to play video games. It will take you more time to complete games obviously but you can get a lot done.
Or you can get a switch and play for an hour in bed right before you go to sleep.
I dont know, I dont get the constants posts like this around here. Do people that have othjer hobbies post on snowboarding forums that they are just to busy to do it?
Or you can get a switch and play for an hour in bed right before you go to sleep.
I dont know, I dont get the constants posts like this around here. Do people that have othjer hobbies post on snowboarding forums that they are just to busy to do it?
mindatlarge
Member
Stacks and stacks of games but no time to play. You're not alone.
Raven117
Member
LOL, great post.
Honestly man, you just have to learn to realize that things in your life are going to take priority and should. Be happy about that.
Be a bit more selective in the games you purchase. Have a little time in the evenings to unwind (hell, its healthier and cheaper than booze) and play some games....and move on with your life.
Its a good thing.
Honestly man, you just have to learn to realize that things in your life are going to take priority and should. Be happy about that.
Be a bit more selective in the games you purchase. Have a little time in the evenings to unwind (hell, its healthier and cheaper than booze) and play some games....and move on with your life.
Its a good thing.
CEJames
Member
This is pretty much the strategy I've picked myself and I'm honestly happy with it.
DizzyCaffeine
Member
I've heard the trick is to wake up early (like 4am-5am) and use that as videogame time, but fuck that noise, I already hate getting up when it's dark out.
MoogleMan
Member
You don't find time. You make time. Don't live at the mercy of a clock.
Also this.
Love you too, man.
So many good games, no time to play them. It hurts, having to prioritize them. I almost never play long RPGs anymore. They take me months and months and months to finish. An hour or two here and there. Breath of the Wild was a goddamn treasure though and I wouldn't take those months back for the world.
So many good games, no time to play them. It hurts, having to prioritize them. I almost never play long RPGs anymore. They take me months and months and months to finish. An hour or two here and there. Breath of the Wild was a goddamn treasure though and I wouldn't take those months back for the world.
AdmiralMikey
Member
I'm a working adult that has enough money to play all the video games I want, but I just don't have the time. I don't blame the video games for me not having enough time, I just face the reality that I can't play as many games as I used to. I've found smaller, quicker experiences to be more fulfilling and less stressful, but that may not work for everyone.
For example, my favorite game this year so far is Resident Evil 7. It was a fun, well-paced, challenging and appropriately spooky experience that fit into my schedule and let me get through it pretty quickly.
However, I grew to resent Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Not because it wasn't good, but largely because of how much time it took from my life. It felt more like a chore than a reward for how to spend my free time.
If there's anything I don't like about modern video games is this insistence that one game must keep me playing it as long as possible. Whether it's through multiplayer modes, DLC, add-on content or microstransactions, the key goal of major published titles nowadays is to keep someone playing their game as long as possible.
I don't want to play one game as long as possible. I want the satisfaction of being able to get through and complete a game and have a good time while doing it.
For example, my favorite game this year so far is Resident Evil 7. It was a fun, well-paced, challenging and appropriately spooky experience that fit into my schedule and let me get through it pretty quickly.
However, I grew to resent Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Not because it wasn't good, but largely because of how much time it took from my life. It felt more like a chore than a reward for how to spend my free time.
If there's anything I don't like about modern video games is this insistence that one game must keep me playing it as long as possible. Whether it's through multiplayer modes, DLC, add-on content or microstransactions, the key goal of major published titles nowadays is to keep someone playing their game as long as possible.
I don't want to play one game as long as possible. I want the satisfaction of being able to get through and complete a game and have a good time while doing it.
Sweet Bellic
Member
Or just accept that it takes longer to beat the game? Not sure why an adult should suddenly require the immediate gratification of beating a game, but I see this ironically childish sentiment a lot on GAF. I mean, do you feel the same way about long novels? Or TV shows (as opposed to films)? Just because I'm 32 years old, working full time, going to school full time, and dating, doesn't mean I'm going to stop playing GTA, Souls, RPGs, and the myriad other 100+ hour games I love. I've just come to terms with the fact that my latest playthrough of, say, MGSV, is going to take months instead of weeks. :'(
Ennosuke
Member
I love video games, I love reading about them, thinking about them, being excited and I end up buying a lot of them, but in the end I feel like under pressure to play them all and this is sometimes stealing the joy while playing a game, because I am already thinking about what to play next.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Group hug (and group therapy) everyone!
LordOcidax
Member
Get a Switch... Thanks me later.
SamuelSupreme
Banned
I think im just burnt out at this point
This man gets it.
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
Then just take a little break and do other things for a bit until you're ready to come back. The games will still be there. I tend to sometimes stress myself out thinking i need to hurry and beat game xyz in x amount of time since game 123 is coming next month. I need to remind myself sometimes that there is no race and not make my favorite hobby in the world stressful.
Astral Dog
Member
those two dont contradict each other
For me the games come in cycles. I didn't have a PS3 the whole time it was the current generation, there were loads of games I was missing out on and I was all 'ugghhh i wanna play those gaaaaames! but one day...'
and then one day I got a PS3 and had a really great 6 months or so going through all of the games I wanted to play on it, and for cheap too. It was great, there were dozens of potential games I might wanna try out and I could go out and pick one up second hand for next to nothing because nobody wanted them anymore. I had a lot of fun. Demon's Souls in particular was a blast playing through last year, all on my own, but there were so many others, too.
Right now, I'm not playing very much. I'm learning to code and actually make them, and I'll get a PS4 in a couple of years when nobody wants that anymore and all of the games on it and just tear through them in a 6 month deep dive into all those worlds, all those baddies, all those menus and osts...it'll be good.
I'm 28. I've had enough periods of like, next to no gaming that last for a year or more and then the sudden resurgence when I spend a lot of my time on it to realise it isn't a 'i'm over it' thing (this is what everyone thinks the first time it happens to them). It's a 'not right now' thing, and then it comes back. If you were sitting playing a bunch of JRPGs on PS1, if you played all the SNES games or if you got genuinely excited by things like Deus Ex or MGS, or fucking anything - you'll be back. It's a certain kind of imagination, and you only think the new stuff isn't as good because it hasn't had the years to sink into that imagination yet. Don't get me wrong, some of it sucks, maybe even a lot of it, but some of it always did. The good stuff is still there, and it's still there for you to go back to and find the new, or revisit old things, if that's what you're in the mood for.
All is well, my friends.
and then one day I got a PS3 and had a really great 6 months or so going through all of the games I wanted to play on it, and for cheap too. It was great, there were dozens of potential games I might wanna try out and I could go out and pick one up second hand for next to nothing because nobody wanted them anymore. I had a lot of fun. Demon's Souls in particular was a blast playing through last year, all on my own, but there were so many others, too.
Right now, I'm not playing very much. I'm learning to code and actually make them, and I'll get a PS4 in a couple of years when nobody wants that anymore and all of the games on it and just tear through them in a 6 month deep dive into all those worlds, all those baddies, all those menus and osts...it'll be good.
I'm 28. I've had enough periods of like, next to no gaming that last for a year or more and then the sudden resurgence when I spend a lot of my time on it to realise it isn't a 'i'm over it' thing (this is what everyone thinks the first time it happens to them). It's a 'not right now' thing, and then it comes back. If you were sitting playing a bunch of JRPGs on PS1, if you played all the SNES games or if you got genuinely excited by things like Deus Ex or MGS, or fucking anything - you'll be back. It's a certain kind of imagination, and you only think the new stuff isn't as good because it hasn't had the years to sink into that imagination yet. Don't get me wrong, some of it sucks, maybe even a lot of it, but some of it always did. The good stuff is still there, and it's still there for you to go back to and find the new, or revisit old things, if that's what you're in the mood for.
All is well, my friends.
undeadhero
Neo Member
On a serious note, I agree with this https://dpadjoy.com/2017/12/21/complification-video-gaming/
don't be mad at yourself, i was/am in this very same position. its all a matter of perspective, i enjoy the time i have available, but know that i would ultimately regret staying at home missing out on real life interactions, i can always queue up another match, replay a campaign or rally a party, but i'll never get that "2017 work function" or my friends "welcome home" party back.
Ceadeus
Gold Member
I speak just like you when im drunk too. It's fine by me.water and shower before bed. Lol
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
The cross over Final Fantasy XV Mission in Assassin's Creed Origins was so pointless. They put more effort in the cutscene than the mission itself.
Then the rewards for it just appear and you're left with a
The puzzle itself wasn't even fun. It was more work than it was fun. And this is a CROSSOVER EVENT!
that was a big letdown. I'm not down about games in general, but that whole thing was meh
Then the rewards for it just appear and you're left with a
Chocobo mount with 4 legs and a lump like a camel
The puzzle itself wasn't even fun. It was more work than it was fun. And this is a CROSSOVER EVENT!
that was a big letdown. I'm not down about games in general, but that whole thing was meh
interfreak
Member
I'm 41 (is that old??) and still love video games to death.
Taliban Stan
Member
Thread boils down to "I have adult responsibilities and can't dive into my hobbies as if I'm a teenager". Glad you've acknowledged this at age 28.
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
I came into the same dilemma a few years ago,
I don't play as much anyway but I found a solution to my problem:
Nintendo DS.
There are a lot of fun games made with short gameplay sessions in mind.
You can just close the system at any time if you need to stop, and then pick up again later.
I don't play on cell phones and I still don't have a Switch
but I imagine they'd serve the same purpose.
Good luck OP
I don't play as much anyway but I found a solution to my problem:
Nintendo DS.
There are a lot of fun games made with short gameplay sessions in mind.
You can just close the system at any time if you need to stop, and then pick up again later.
I don't play on cell phones and I still don't have a Switch
but I imagine they'd serve the same purpose.
Good luck OP
ThatOneGrunt
Member
Wait until you have kids. If it weren't for Xbox remote play I would never have the time to play. And now I have a Rift and use the xbox remote play vr app and it's like I'm in my little gaming heaven where nobody can bother me. I used DASH the other day to pin and overlay a movie while I was playing FarCry. It was amazing.
Get a little glass with whisky and a straw.... I want to be there right now...
Get a little glass with whisky and a straw.... I want to be there right now...
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
It's just video games.
PooBone
Member
HAHAHAHAH!!!! We love you too brother.
PapaEmeritus
Member
Gotta be honest, felt the same way. Takes alot to get out of the zeitgeist bubble, took some work. However, I got the switch and I find I can make time, simply because I'm not lokced to a TV. Hardest part is not having to play everything, get over that and you'll be good.
Bigmanatee
Member
I go through different phases of life with the amount of time I play video games. I'm 35 and don't have any kids but I'm married.
Age 6 to 18- played games all the time. Mom got me an atari, neighbor gifted me a nes, bought the psx with my own money as a freshman in HS
Age 18 to 27- didn't play at all in college, did americorps and had a gba sp but barely played it
Age 27 to 34- bought a big Sony bravia that was bundled with a ps3, bought a wii and jailbroke it, raspberry pi, ps4, vita, 3ds
Now I have a switch and while I love it I haven't been in the mood to play anything since the summer. It's weird; my gaming habits now come and go. But man, fuck video games
Age 6 to 18- played games all the time. Mom got me an atari, neighbor gifted me a nes, bought the psx with my own money as a freshman in HS
Age 18 to 27- didn't play at all in college, did americorps and had a gba sp but barely played it
Age 27 to 34- bought a big Sony bravia that was bundled with a ps3, bought a wii and jailbroke it, raspberry pi, ps4, vita, 3ds
Now I have a switch and while I love it I haven't been in the mood to play anything since the summer. It's weird; my gaming habits now come and go. But man, fuck video games